Landscape genomics is an emerging research field that aims to identify the environmental
factors that shape adaptive genetic variation and the gene variants that drive local …

The field of molecular ecology has expanded enormously in the past two decades, largely
because of the growing ease with which neutral molecular genetic data can be obtained …

Both environmental and genetic influences can result in phenotypic variation. Quantifying
the relative contributions of local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity to phenotypes is key to …

Although temperature variation is known to cause large-scale adaptive divergence, its
potential role as a selective factor over microgeographic scales is less well-understood …

Background Past events like fluctuations in population size and post-glacial colonization
processes may influence the relative importance of genetic drift, migration and selection …

Molecular ecology has become one of the key tools in the modern conservationist's kit. Here
we review three areas where molecular ecology has been applied to amphibian …

Recent studies of humans, dogs and rodents have started to discover the genetic
underpinnings of high altitude adaptations, yet amphibians have received little attention in …

Only two species of boreal Holarctic frogs (genus Rana Linnaeus, 1758) can survive
freezing and overwinter on land; they are found in the subarctic and cold regions of North …

Genomics has great potential to advance understanding of amphibian evolution, ecology,
and behavior, as well as to improve conservation of this highly imperiled class of …

In response to selective pressure, adaptation may follow different genetic pathways
throughout the natural range of a species due to historical differentiation in standing genetic …